January/February 2012 Lite Challenge Entry: Compass Rose in Brass and Blue

[Bogie]

I wasn't planning on entering this challenge as I am not great at drawing things either by hand or digitally. I am more a cut & paste & edit kind of guy.
But then I found this gold foil texture that looks like brass when I darkened it and a picture of a fancy brass serving tray that had a face that kind of looks like that picture I see on maps of the cloud face blowing the wind across the ocean and I started getting Ideas.
So I opened up Photoshop with these textures and started cutting and pasting and editing and it came together pretty well. When I took a Grunge texture by struckdumb at Deviant art and changed it to a deep ocean blue the Brass Rose really popped.

I have included the rose by itself as a png with transparency so you can use it on a map and the final version displayed on the blue background.

CompassRose-1_bg.png

### LATEST WIP ###

[Bogie]

Sorry about the double post, the (latest wip) thingy didn't pickup the one I wanted it to.
So by just posting the right one here it should show the final one.

### LATEST WIP ###
CompassRose-1a_bg.png

[alanrex]

i really like this a lot

[Bogie]

Thanks alanrex. While I have made lots of mapping items, this is first time I built something like this totally from scratch.

[Lukc]

Mmm ... brassy and shiny! Maybe you could put a bit of a drop shadow on the ring, where it goes under the rose?